Create a Game
Create a Game is an ideation warm-up exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Everything can be turned into a game c real estate becomes Monopoly, war becomes Chess or Go depending on whether you take a traditionally western or traditionally eastern view of conflict , urban planning becomes Sim City, and on and on
- Use the following example assignment and pass it out to People Science teams
- This game should capture some of the real dynamics at play in the current situation and embed strategies for winning into the way the game is played
- Use the materials provided to design an actual game that one of the other teams can learn and play in less than 10 minutes games can have multiple rounds that would decide an eventual winner Start the
- by brainstorming a list of your team's favorite games c two or three from each person
- Choose one of these games as a model for your game of
- Sketch out the game on your WorkWall/flip chart
- What role does luck versus strategy have in winning?
- What powers do they have?
- What unique characteristics of our current situation can you build into your game?6
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Everything can be turned into a game c real estate becomes Monopoly, war becomes Chess or Go depending on whether you take a traditionally western or traditionally eastern view of conflict , urban planning becomes Sim City, and on and on
Use the following example assignment and pass it out to People Science teams
This game should capture some of the real dynamics at play in the current situation and embed strategies for winning into the way the game is played
Use the materials provided to design an actual game that one of the other teams can learn and play in less than 10 minutes games can have multiple rounds that would decide an eventual winner Start the
by brainstorming a list of your team's favorite games c two or three from each person
Choose one of these games as a model for your game of
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Create a Game. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Everything can be turned into a game c real estate becomes Monopoly, war becomes Chess or Go depending on whether you take a traditionally western or traditionally eastern view of conflict , urban planning becomes Sim City, and on and on; Use the following example assignment and pass it out to People Science teams; This game should capture some of the real dynamics at play in the current situation and embed strategies for winning into the way the game is played; Use the materials provided to design an actual game that one of the other teams can learn and play in less than 10 minutes games can have multiple rounds that would decide an eventual winner Start the. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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